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Revolution came to Russia in March 1917.
After travelling from Kiev to meet with her deposed son, Nicholas II in Mogilev, Maria returned to the city.
She quickly realized how Kiev had changed and that her presence was no longer wanted.
She was persuaded by her family there to travel by train to the Crimea with a group of other refugee Romanovs.
After a time living in one of the imperial residences in the Crimea, she received reports that her sons, her daughter-in-law and her grandchildren had been murdered.
However, she rejected the report publicly as rumour.
On the day after the murder of the Tsar's family, Maria received a messenger from Nicky, " a touching man " who told how difficult was the life of her son's family in Ekaterinburg.
" And nobody can help or liberate them-only God!
My Lord save my poor, unlucky Nicky, help him in his hard ordeals!
" In her diary she comforted herself: " I am sure they all got out of Russia and now the Bolsheviks are trying to hide the truth.
" She firmly held on to this conviction until her death.
The truth was too painful for her to admit publicly.
Her letters to her son and his family have since almost all been lost ; but in one that survives, she wrote to Nicholas: " You know that my thoughts and prayers never leave you.
I think of you day and night and sometimes feel so sick at heart that I believe I cannot bear it any longer.
But God is merciful.
He will give us strength for this terrible ordeal.
" Maria's daughter Olga Alexandrovna commented further on the matter, " Yet I am sure that deep in her heart my mother had steeled herself to accept the truth some years before her death.

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